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Prejudice against Muslims has a long and complex history, shaped over many centuries. In recent decades, discrimination, violence, and human rights abuses against Muslims have taken a significant...

Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind. The digital revolution promises a brave new world where individuals,...

What position does America occupy in the recent history of Western philosophy? At once the destination for a series of fantasies and the place from which a new relationship to thought originated,...

In response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the...

Becoming An Artwork (Theory Redux)Author: GROYS.Publisher: PolityPublication Date: Dec 12, 2022Number of Pages: 140 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1509551972ISBN-13: 9781509551972

Being Philosophical guides readers through the perplexing initial moments of meeting philosophy by taking them inside philosophical thinking as an activity. In a beginner-friendly voice, Stephen...

Labour has been on a wild ride over the past thirty years. New Labour argued that we had no choice but to accept a globalized free market economy in which the race was to the swift, the open and the...

Right now, someone, somewhere is being cancelled. Off-the-cuff tweets or "harmless" office banter have the potential to wreck lives. The Left condemns the Right, and the bigotry of the old elites...

What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly...

The Bolivian scholar and activist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a pre-eminent Latin American intellectual, world renowned for her work in postcolonial and subaltern studies. She has long maintained...

China?s huge environmental challenges affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet. In this fully revised and updated third edition of her acclaimed book,...

Conspiracy theories are neither delusions nor lies, neither simplistic fallacies nor psychological quirks: rather, they are a political problem. They are not so much about truth as about power...

9/11 was an inside job. The Holocaust is a myth promoted to serve Jewish interests. The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were a false flag operation. Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by...

?We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.? So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940...

Cryptocurrencies are often associated with right-wing political movements, or even with the alt-right. They are the preserve of libertarians and fans of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek. With their...

How has the digital revolution transformed criminal opportunities and behaviour? What is different about cybercrime compared with traditional criminal activity? What impact might cybercrime have on...

What role does religion play in modern societies? Is it merely an anachronism that hinders our economic growth? Is it a kind of superstition that people should be left to enjoy in private but should...

This book will become the standard work on the life and thought of Émile Durkheim, one of the great founding fathers of sociology. Durkheim remains one of the most widely read thinkers in the social...

Human civilization is founded on ethical principles, norms of behaviour that have accumulated over time. Perhaps the oldest of ethical principles is the rejection of violence, which includes the...

What do cinematic ?universes,? cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They?re in the business of foreverizing ? the process of revitalizing things that have degraded, failed, or...

Revolutionary humanist and radical psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was one of the greatest Black thinkers of the twentieth century. Born in Martinique and known for his involvement in the Algerian...

Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch cross-border attacks that scorched Israel and transformed the dynamics of the...

In the decades following the 9/11 attacks, complex webs of anti-terrorism laws have come into play across the world, promising to protect ordinary citizens from bombings, hijackings and other forms...

Nietzsche?s reputation, like much of Europe, lay in ruins in 1945. Giving a platform to a philosopher venerated by the Nazis was not an attractive prospect for Germans eager to cast off Hitler?s...

In this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in ?earthly things? and pay...

Affirmative action in college admissions ? considering whether an applicant is part of an underrepresented group when making selection decisions ? has long been a topic of heated public debate. Some...

As a heat wave hits Paris, the author?s entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. He can?t sleep because of the...

Late Capitalist FascismAuthor: Mikkel Bolt RasmussenPublisher: PolityPublication Date: Jan 04, 2022Number of Pages: 140 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1509547444ISBN-13:...

Letter To D: A Love StoryAuthor: Andre GorzPublisher: PolityPublication Date: Sep 28, 2020Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 150954397XISBN-13: 9781509543977

Indigenous thinker and leader Ailton Krenak exposes the destructive tendencies of our ?civilization?: rampant consumerism, environmental devastation and a narrow and restricted understanding of...